Learn how to quickly create eLearning videos in After Effects without having to hand keyframe or had illustrate graphics
This course is specifically designed for trainers, teachers, instructional designers, or educators who wants to learn After Effects but find the challenge too daunting. This course will help you create clean and professional looking videos without having to hand keyframe all the objects or hand draw graphics. We will focus on leverage many of the resources available to develop the video rather than trying to do create things from scratch. In this course you will be able to do the following:
What you’ll learn
- Identify the main components in Adobe After Effects.
- Leverage outside resources for better design and development.
- Create an entire training/marketing video in After Effects.
- Render and encode the finished video to send to stakeholders.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- Opening Adobe After Effects –> 1 lecture • 12min.
- Utilizing Plugins for Faster Development –> 1 lecture • 3min.
- Animating Layer/Objects using Helpful Plugins –> 1 lecture • 4min.
- Creating a Full Video: Setup –> 1 lecture • 4min.
- Building out Scene 1 –> 1 lecture • 11min.
- Building out Scene 2 –> 2 lectures • 33min.
- Building Out Scene 3 –> 1 lecture • 17min.
- Previewing, Rendering, and Encoding –> 2 lectures • 7min.
- Basic Keyframe Animation –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- Conclusion –> 1 lecture • 2min.
Requirements
This course is specifically designed for trainers, teachers, instructional designers, or educators who wants to learn After Effects but find the challenge too daunting. This course will help you create clean and professional looking videos without having to hand keyframe all the objects or hand draw graphics. We will focus on leverage many of the resources available to develop the video rather than trying to do create things from scratch. In this course you will be able to do the following:
- Create a composition
- Utilize often-used tools
- Apply helpful plugins for faster development
- Analyze a script to determine design
- Leverage resources for better design
- Render and encode the video for final output
This is a beginner course and is geared towards professionals who are in education or in the learning and development industry. Knowing After Effects can greatly increase your marketability. After Effects can be very intimidating at first glance. However, in this course will go over just the most often used features to build your videos. We will also take advantage of a very useful plugin to speed up the process even more.
In completing this course, you will have a full eLearning video sample that you can add to your portfolio.
Note: This course is not for those who want to learn how to animate characters or cartoons. This is primarily for eLearning and training.